Adam Schaefter of ESPN made some interesting notes about Detroit Lions giant receiver Kenny Golde during a show on “Get Up” on Monday morning.
First, he noted that the discussion between Lions and Golade was serious last year, and the young recipient gave some serious money.
“Keep in mind last year that the two sides discussed long-term expansion, and Kenny Golade declined somewhere around $ 18, મિ 19 million a year, depending on what you want to believe,” Sheffert said.
Such pay would have placed Golden in the NFL elite, with only Dandre Hopkins ($ 27.3), Julio Jones (M22M), Cannon Allen (M20M), Our Cooper ($ 20M) and Michael Thomas (.2 19.25M). ) Were more average. Currently every year.
Gold has only played five matches in 2020 and his salary has dropped this year, so the reason is that his price may go down this year. That leads to another interesting point for Shafter.
According to ESPN’s internal adviser, Lions cannot use the franchise tag on Golade, which is currently a one-year, $ 16.4 million deal through Over the Cap.
“I think the chance for a new regime in Detroit is here To be able to Choose not to tag him at all, which will allow him to become one of the most popular free agents out there, ”said Schafter. “We’ll see if the Lions decide to use that tag by 4pm Eastern time on Tuesday. I think there’s a chance they won’t. ”
The shafter uses very soft language there, but it’s not even one to see if he throws things against the wall. This also goes against previous reports which suggest that it would be a big surprise if Golade is not tagged.
Regardless, we are moving the franchise deadline back a few days, even when the NFL decides on the final pay cap number for 2021, we should get an answer soon on what the Lions have decided to do with Golade.
